18 May Refugee Voices in Film Schedule
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Salle Bory – Palais des Festivals, Fourth Floor – Cannes, France
09.30
Registration/Coffee
10:00
Welcome Remarks
- Welcome by Jérôme Paillard – Executive Director, Marché du Film
- Welcome from Marco Orsini – President, IEFTA
Screening of UNHCR Trailer
10:20
Keynote address
Vincent Cochetel
European Bureau Director, UNHCR
10:45
Sharing Stories
We explore the ways that fiction and documentary filmmakers have responded to the worldwide crisis and how they have engaged and depicted refugees and their circumstances.
Screen highlights of their films
- Elhum Shakerifar (UK/France – A Syrian Love Story)
- Mary-Lyn Chambers (NZ/USA – Debris)
- Laura Doggett (US – The Girl, Whose Shadow Reflects the Moon/Another Kind of Girl)
- Rithy Panh (Cambodia – Exile)
- Ragnhild Ek (UNHCR/Cairo – Raghad’s Dream)
11:35
Break
11:45
Screening of Annenberg Foundation Refugee Trailer
Global Responses on Screen
(Moderated by Lliana Bird, Broadcaster & Co-Founder of Help Refugees)
How do we make and share refugee stories? A look a new storytelling techniques, the approaches of broadcasters, the UN, NGOs and commercial distributors, and how these films can raise awareness and support fundraising efforts.
Screening of Broadcast Video Packages
- Jon Laurence – Channel 4 (Two Billion Miles)
- Mazen Hayek – MBC (Basmet Amal – Touch of Hope)
- Edith Champagne – UNHCR Video Unit (The Long Journey)
- Vincent Lucassen – Under The Milky Way/Global Nomads
- Houssam Chahin – UNHCR (Public Engagement with the Cause)
- Uwe Lothar Müller – ARTE
12:45
Lunch
14:30
A Conversation with Activists / Filmmakers / Actresses Juliet Stevenson, Arta Dobroshi
Screen highlights of their respective films.
15:30
Giving Voice
Some of the most compelling works of recent cinema are about – and by – refugees. We will examine how these films raise awareness, how refugee stories are told and how many refugees are increasingly telling their own stories
Screen highlights of their respective films
- Mahmoud Bitar (Syria – Don’t Come to Sweden)
- Zahra Mackaoui – (Lebanon/UK, Filmmaker)
- Alice Bragg – (World Film Collective)
- Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad – Bye Bye Africa, Aboud, A Screaming Man)
- Melita Sunjic – (Telling the Real Story)
- Laurent Duarte – (Festival International du Film des Droits de l’Homme)